OK, here's where I'll probably get flamed...
I've been thinking about this lately and I'm kind of wondering how everyone here feels about it. All in all it doesn't really matter, but it's just what I've been thinking. As much as I can respect someone being influenced by another band and such, I feel Steven Wilson is starting to have a little too much of an effect on Opeth's art. On "Blackwater Park" it showed up a little, but not a whole lot, which was fine. But for "Deliverance", I found myself being able to say "there's a Steven Wilson influence" a number of times (a few times too many), and to me it seems to be taking away a lot of what makes Opeth who they are and is sort of molding them into something else (at least if the influence continues to increase). Don't get me wrong, I still think "Deliverance" is a great album, in fact it's pretty much all I've been listening to since I bought it, but at the moment I'm not sure I really like all the extra computer trickery and such obvious Wilson influences that are starting to become more prevalent within Opeth. The same songs would have been just as good without the obvious influences. It's not a big deal, but something I've been pondering a bit.
I've been thinking about this lately and I'm kind of wondering how everyone here feels about it. All in all it doesn't really matter, but it's just what I've been thinking. As much as I can respect someone being influenced by another band and such, I feel Steven Wilson is starting to have a little too much of an effect on Opeth's art. On "Blackwater Park" it showed up a little, but not a whole lot, which was fine. But for "Deliverance", I found myself being able to say "there's a Steven Wilson influence" a number of times (a few times too many), and to me it seems to be taking away a lot of what makes Opeth who they are and is sort of molding them into something else (at least if the influence continues to increase). Don't get me wrong, I still think "Deliverance" is a great album, in fact it's pretty much all I've been listening to since I bought it, but at the moment I'm not sure I really like all the extra computer trickery and such obvious Wilson influences that are starting to become more prevalent within Opeth. The same songs would have been just as good without the obvious influences. It's not a big deal, but something I've been pondering a bit.